Top Health Care IT Trends for 2012 - Slide 3

Patients are suing health care organizations for failing to protect their personal information. 2011 already saw several class-action lawsuits for organizations, some of which involved business associates.

The health care sector will be one of the most active areas in all of IT in 2012. With the advent of electronic health care records and greater enforcement of compliance rules, the pressure on health care IT professionals is going to rise exponentially in 2012.

The folks at ID Experts, a provider of data breach security and compliance management tools, have put together a list of some of the things IT health care professionals should specifically be watching for in 2012.

Cost reduction has been the main driver of IIoT adoption. Other contributors are the emergence of ancillary and complementary technologies, including low-power hardware devices, the cloud, Big Data analytics, robotics and automation and smart sensors. ... More >>

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